Joey Adams
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Ada Louise Huxtable
American architecture writer
Ada Louise Huxtablewas an American architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public’s awareness of the urban environment.
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Ada Louise Huxtablewas an American architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public’s awareness of the urban environment. In 1970, she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In 1981, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger, also a Pulitzer Prize-winnerfor architectural criticism, said in 1996: “Before Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture was not a part of the public dialogue.” “She was a great lover of cities, a great preservationist and the central planet around which every other critic revolved,” said architect Robert A. M. Stern, dean of the Yale University School of Architecture.
6 Quotes by Ada Louise Huxtable
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
Ada Louise HuxtableAmerican architecture writer
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Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
Ada Louise HuxtableAmerican architecture writer
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
Ada Louise HuxtableAmerican architecture writer
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Ada Louise HuxtableAmerican architecture writer
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
Ada Louise HuxtableAmerican architecture writer
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.
Ada Louise HuxtableAmerican architecture writer